Dmitri Shostakovich - autor

Tracklist:Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarrotti Op.145a (Russian trans. by A. Efros)1 I. Truth 4202 II. Morning 2322 III. Love 3493 IV. Separation 2474 V. Anger 1415 VI. Dante 7526 VII. Creativity 2368 VIII. Night 3419 IX. Death 44910...

Dmitri Shostakovich was the chronicler, the poet in music, of Soviet Russia: from its bright and optimistic inception as enshrined in his First Symphony, through the gradual alienation experienced by genuinely creative figures within Stalins regime,...

Cello Concerto No.1 in E-Flat Op.107 1 I. Allegretto 6 15 2 II. Moderato 11 33 3 III. Cadenza 5 52 4 IV. Allegro con moto 4 39 Cello Concerto No.2 Op.126 5 I. Largo 15 44 6 II. Allegretto 4 20 7 III. Allegretto 16...

One of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century, Dmitri Shostakovichs output includes symphonies, concertos, operas and film scores, among others. With his career constantly hampered by political intervention and the social pressures of...

After releasing the highly successful sets of Shostakovich symphonies (the award-winning cycle of Rudolf Barshai) and the string quartets ( highly acclaimed performances of the Rubio Quartet), this set presents the Jazz Suites, Ballet Suites and...

These choruses are not (or not entirely) the tub-thumping exercises in blatant jingoistic rabble-rousing that you might expect, but contain many moments of poetry that make them secular rivals to earlier works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov which...